Day 16 from 110km to 86.5km (from Rolleston).
.7:45am on the road, after cooked breaky: last night’s left overs warmed up.
Still, getting better. And lovely time thinking through my own state of mind, in the early hours of the morning, with the help of.. creative love...& providing "an unexpected way out, so you can bear it"
Just before 9 am, a ute going to Injune does a U’ey and stops Infront of me. Just wanting to find out what I’m on avout. I tell them,
& David & Sheree, the Managers at Walleroo, tell me a bit about Walleroo, self catered “Glamping” for people visiting the beautiful Carnavon Gorge. They think there's also bush camping, and a Big Four Van park inside the Park. I’d love to bring the family & grandkids here for a fortnight. They (like Gail Price, before them) warned me how good the truck stop around the corner is (even got visa facilities, with some skyphone connection!)
They said to ell Mick & Heather they recommended them (& especially Heather’s cheese cake). How lovely to bump into humans as we walk through this world! Thanks Dave & Sheree (I probably got the spelling wrong - sorry, feel free to make a comment, & I’ll fix it up)
By about 9:20am, I arrive at the Walleroo truck stop.
Heather didn’t get to make her cheesecake this week but I bought a large takeaway flat white coffee & one of each kind of her bickies, & a pie! She got her son “Bull” to help fill my water containers too. Thanks you two. Lovely water., Lovely coffee, Nice bickies, one a day till I get to the bore at Consuelo, Pallas Bore.
Kim Cherry & his lady Lee couldn’t help ‘emselves they brought some cans of chunky beef soup to help me make it through to Rolleston.
How kind. We stopped and had a chin wag. Heard about where Kim grew up and then raised 4 kids with Lee around Toowoomba/ Brisbane. and how he can walk again in a team work production of Titanium bolts and screws after a motor bike accident. Whether pretty sickening photos.. now visiting Ruby Vale for a mate’s 60th. Had a go at drawing Kim as he told me his story..
We each had to go, but look forward to any other meet ups
Moving into a new shire.
.Wow, this brings back memories.. I grew up in Rockhampton (which is part of the Capricorn
Those little signs of progress...
This sign helped me to keep going, then the next one that said 5,km.
When I got there. I stopped for the night. Had a wash in the river and collected a litre of water from the river to boil up for coffee & dinner.
Lovely sights among the trees,
and some weird things I see as I go… e.g. thinking of camping two times when I found these holes in the ground some only 1 cm across, some 2 cm across. Not many ants around. Are they mice, or spiders, or gheckos, or cicadas?
Just before I got to the rest area where I stayed for the night, a herd of cattle crossed from the right of the road to the CV left and trundled off, except one bigger individual, who turned out to be a bull. I picked up a stick from the other side of the road and made a loud shouting noises “on us! Get up there…” he didn’t move. He was bigger the closer I got to him. Then I remembered the animal whisperer ideas of not looking like a predator who is dangerous, but a fellow herbivore or non dangerous animal, so aivsang quietly. Cows are very curious at this. And looked away from him, and didn't brandish the stick any more. After about 4 minutes he quietly moved to the centre of the road and stayed there for 2 or 3 minutes I had visions of these big road trains coming in either direction at 100 km an hour and cleaning him up. Then he just waddled off too. I was glad.
In the paddock after he left, doesn’tt look so big, with the tall grasses,, but he was.
Well 54 min in a car maybe, but for me it looks like 4 more days to Rolleston. Though they say there's not much there. Hope there is a pub, or a Van park with cabins and a bed.
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